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A Day to Be Happy

Music documentary for the band "Kulturno Umetnicki Rabotnici" (Cultural Art Workers).

The question whether the punk is dead is constantly thrown around, as well as what is punk and if this or that is punk enough. "A Day to Be Happy" is a movie in the shape of a testimony about the constant fight of few musical individuals not to be put in the bin where music has some purpose, some genre, some goal or some fee.
The film uses the band Kulturno Umetnicki Rabotnici as the main protagonist to show an intimate conversation with some of the most important figures of the Macedonian alternative scene.
What is meaning of the word in-law"? How is Thursday more important from the rest of the days in the week? Who is in charge for making "turshija" and who is in charge of rakija, during their 15 years of making music? One is for sure: It's easy to get in KUR, but getting out is trickier.

So, A Day to Be Happy.

  • ljubica Popovska
    Director
  • Ljubica Popovska
    Writer
  • Vladimir Stojcevski
    Producer
  • Goran Stojilkovic
    Producer
  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 5 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    November 20, 2014
  • Country of Origin:
    North Macedonia
  • Country of Filming:
    Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of
  • Language:
    Macedonian
  • Shooting Format:
    HD
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Cinedays - Festival of European Film
    Skopje
    November 20, 2014
    domestic
  • DORF - Festival of Documentary Rock Film
    Vinkovci
    Croatia
    March 13, 2015
    Croatian premiere
  • DORF - Festival of Documentary Rock Film
    Osijek
    Croatia
    March 14, 2015
  • Skopje Cinema City Film Festival
    Skopje
    Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of
    June 2, 2015
  • Manaki Brothers Film Festival
    Bitola
    Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of
    September 26, 2015
  • Balkan Film & Food Festival
    Pogradec
    Albania
    August 3, 2016
    Albanian premiere
  • dokuMFest
    Zenica
    Bosnia and Herzegovina
    August 30, 2016
    Bosnian premiere
  • FerFilm Festival
    Urosevac (Ferizaj)
    Kosovo
    September 3, 2016
  • Dok'N'Ritam - Music documentary film festival
    Belgrade
    Serbia
    June 3, 2017
    Serbian premiere
Director Biography - ljubica Popovska

Ljubica Popovska was born and raised in Skopje. Since elementary school she visited lots of drama classes, so in the year 2000 she wrote and directed the first children play for a young female partisan. She studied Visual Arts at the New Bulgarian University in Sofia, Bulgaria where she met with few Bulgarian music artists and directed short music videos for them. In 2008 her short film "Me and you" was part of the student selection at the Skopje Film Festival. In 2010 she co - directed and edited the documentary "Life N.2" for the Macedonian Archery Champion in Paralympics Vanco Karanfilov. "A day to be happy!" is her first feature documentary.

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